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  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like the ABA?

    How Do You Solve a Problem Like the ABA?

    Dropping its DEI mandate addresses one concern, but its monopoly over law school accreditation raises others.

    The heat is on for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) law school accreditation wing, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (ABA Council or…

  • Nudge Has Come to Shove

    Nudge Has Come to Shove

    Two former champions of the nudge now argue that society’s problems require collective action.

    Behavioral economists Nick Chater and George Loewenstein, a Brit and an American, have both had a revelation. In their new book, It’s On You, they reconsider an idea they once…

  • Escape from New York

    Escape from New York

    On September 15, 1776…

    Note: The following is an excerpt from our latest article in Dispatches from the American Revolution. One of the unusual aspects of the Revolutionary War—though it has become so enshrined…

  • The Race to Scientific Mediocrity

    The Race to Scientific Mediocrity

    AI is making scientists more productive. That’s the problem.

    You might be forgiven for thinking that the whole point of science—sorry, Science—is discovery. Of new knowledge, of new cures, of new ways of making our lives better, for which…

  • A $600,000 Slap on the Wrist

    A $600,000 Slap on the Wrist

    Stuart Reges won a major free-speech victory, but deeper-pocketed universities need penalties that actually deter misconduct.

    It’s good news that the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has won a lawsuit against the University of Washington (UW) on behalf of Professor Stuart Reges, who was…

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